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“The first time I logged this was 11 months ago when I first got started on Steepster. I have tried hundreds of teas since then but this one still holds up to being a really excellent tea....”
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The first time I logged this was 11 months ago when I first got started on Steepster. I have tried hundreds of teas since then but this one still holds up to being a really excellent tea.
Fruity, a creamy mouthfeel, good with or without sugar and creamer, even just a tiny tiny bit smokey.
A rich full cup.
I still love you Monks Blend and that is more than I can say for many of my “first teas”.

“Oooh, grenadine and tea… maybe you will be a cherry-flavored tea that doesn’t taste like cough syrup to me! But wait… what are those little orange things you have? That’s in my mango tea, too. You aren’t mango, are you?”
“That’s not mango, that’s calendula.”sniff … “But you kind of smell like mango.”
“I’m not mango.”
“But you smell fruity and mango is a fruit.”
“Cherry is a fruit, too.”
“But those little things are mango-colored.”
“That. Isn’t. Mango. That’s calendula. I am not mango.”sip … “Hmm. Fruity. Hello mango, are you in there?”
“I’m NOT mango.”
“But you’re fruity. And a little toasty. And sweet. And yummy.”
“I AM NOTMANGO!”sip … “Okay, now that you are cooling, you aren’t so much indistinct fruity. You taste, well, sort of like grenadine has been splashed into a toasty, almost bake-y tea.”
“THAT’S BECAUSE I AMGRENADINETEA.”shrug … “Well, I suppose you aren’t mango after all, even if you do have those little things my mango tea does.”
“Sigh. I hate you.”
“Mmm, sweet grenadine flavored tea. I love you.”

@Amyb & gmathis – I’m actually thinking (based on the things I’ve found on Steepster and the interwebs) that this isMTC (with the suggestion of Mlesna is a close second). I’m going to have to try those to compare.
@Angrboda, I wish I could say it was just an idea I had to be humorous (because I’d sound less insane then) but this pretty much is a verbatim conversation that I had with this tea this morning. Of course, the tea’s conversation sounded much more ‘slosh slosh’ but I could read between the lines.

So I looked it up and apparently you can create it with pomegranates – so who knew! Okay, apparently Jillian, you knew! Hehe. But grenadine is used for ‘cherry’ cokes so that’s why I was thinking cherry.

Well, I don’t know if Coca Cola uses it or not in their cherry cokes, but ‘cokes’ in Texas = ‘soda’ in the rest of the US. But when I used to waitress I know we’d pour cherry sugary ‘juice’ (from maraschino cherry jars) into people’s drinks when they wanted a cherry Coke or Sprite or whatever. And if they were mean and asked for one, we’d put a lot because it was supposed to be a bit of a laxative. Hehe.

Ah okay, I’m used to it being Coca Cola. We’ve had their cherry colas for a couple of months here, but sadly only as a limited edition. sob Can’t get Dr Pepper here either, which I learned to drink the first time I was in London. It was pulled off the market again after only a couple of years. Didn’t sell well enough, apparently. I did my best, but I’m only one person with only one income. :p

Grenadine is often used for cherry flavoring in drinks and whatnot, but I never knew it could be made from pomegranate. That’s neat.

Also, this review is effing hilarious. It makes me want to make a web comic. I would call it Auggy + tea. Or perhaps something not quite as boring a little more creative. I would need someone else to draw it for me. And also to write it. Auggy, you can write it.